Costa Rica lawmakers receive football match-fixing bill with betting-related sentence increases
Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly received a bill proposing prison terms of two to five years for manipulating sports competitions, the Costa Rican Football Federation said. The proposal would increase sentences by up to a third when manipulation seeks betting gains, involves threats or coercion, or is committed by a sports official; all political groups’ leaders backed it.
If enacted, the bill would make betting-related match manipulation an aggravating factor in criminal penalties for sports-integrity offences.